US 12,230,933 B2
Terminal and wire with terminal
Shunya Takeuchi, Mie (JP); Teruo Hara, Mie (JP); and Hajime Matsui, Mie (JP)
Assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/909,431
Filed by AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Mie (JP); SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP); and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/008880
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 5, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/182373, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-043008 (JP), filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0137240 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 4/26 (2006.01); H01R 4/50 (2006.01); H01R 11/11 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/5083 (2013.01) [H01R 4/26 (2013.01); H01R 11/11 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a wire, comprising:
a terminal body; and
a slide portion,
wherein:
the terminal body includes a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the wire,
the slide portion has a tubular shape to be externally fit to the terminal body,
the slide portion includes a pressurizing portion projecting inward from an inner surface of the slide portion,
the slide portion is slidable with respect to the terminal body between a non-contact position where the pressurizing portion is not in contact with the sandwiching portion and a contact position forward of the non-contact position, the pressurizing portion being in contact with the sandwiching portion at the contact position,
the slide portion has a lower wall, a first side wall extending upward from one side edge of the lower wall and a second sandwiching portion extending upward from the other side edge of the lower wall,
a first upper wall extending toward the second side wall via a first bent portion is formed on an upper end part of the first side wall and a second upper wall extending toward the first side wall via a second bent portion formed at a position forward of the first upper wall on an upper end part of the second side wall,
the first upper wall is formed with a projecting portion projecting outward, and
a rear holding portion for receiving a force pushing the projecting portion of the first upper wall from behind is provided on a rear end edge of the second upper wall or a rear end edge of the second bent portion.